- No to ?extra-constitutional adventure? forever
The Appellate Division of Supreme Court in a landmark verdict strongly denounced martial law and suspension of the country’s constitution, and recommended meting out suitable punishment to the perpetrators. Upholding the High Court Division’s historic ruling of 2005 that had declared the fifth amendment to the constitution illegal, the apex court also said it is up [...] (local) - Military takeover never again
The Supreme Court in its judgment on the fifth amendment to the constitution paved the way for preventing military takeover in future and restoring secular spirit of the original constitution except for a few changes. Islam, however, shall remain the state religion as per the eighth amendment, which is not covered by the judgment. The SC released [...] (local) - Special body sits today to review constitution
The special committee of parliament for constitutional amendment holds its maiden meeting today to start reviewing the constitution and prepare proposals for amendments. Co-chair of the committee Suranjit Sengupta yesterday said they would also carefully examine the implications of the Supreme Court’s verdict, which declared the constitution’s fifth amendment illegal. The High Court in 2005 declared the [...] (local) - Stop advertisement, sale of plots: HC
The High Court has directed the government to take effective steps to stop earth filling and sale of plots in unauthorised private housing projects, and advertisements on those. The court also directed the government to show cause as to why its failure to stop the illegal activities of private housing companies shall not be declared to [...] (local) - Pakistan plane crash kills 152
A plane has crashed in hills north of the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, killing all 152 people on board yesterday. The plane, an Airblue flight from Karachi to Islamabad, came down in the Margalla Hills. Officials said the plane lost contact with the control tower minutes before landing. It is not known what caused the crash. Pakistani TV [...] (local) - Same fate likely for 7th amendment
The seventh amendment to the constitution, which legitimises HM Ershad’s takeover of power and the acts under his military rule, could have the same fate as the fifth amendment, said Law Minister Shafique Ahmed. A writ petition, filed on January 24 this year, challenging the legality of the amendment is pending with the High Court. The HC [...] (local) - Parties using religion face ban
Political parties and other organisations using religion as their guidelines now stand banned with cancellation of the fifth amendment to the constitution, says the law minister. Their activities are now punishable offence, Law Minister Shafique Ahmed told The Daily Star yesterday. Following the Appellate Division’s decision upholding the High Court’s landmark verdict that declared the constitution’s fifth [...] (local) - Ban to face strong opposition
The religion-based political parties in the country are chalking out strategies for their survival as the Supreme Court verdict on the fifth amendment to the constitution paves the way for the government to ban the parties. They would come up with a complete course of action against the banning of the use of religion in politics [...] (local) - Mahmudur gets bail in 2 cases
A Gopalganj court on Tuesday granted bail to Mahmudur Rahman, the acting editor of the daily Amar Desh, in two defamation cases filed against him. Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate of Gopalganj Golam Mostafa fixed August 8 for the next hearing of the cases after Mahmudur Rahman was produced before the court in the morning. Awami League Joint [...] (local) - Mannan Bhuiyan passes away
Former secretary general of the BNP Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan died of lung cancer at 12:01am on Wednesday at a hospital in the city. He was 67. The first Namaz-e-janaza of Mannan Bhuiyan was held at about 11:15am at the South Plaza on the Parliament premises, ATN Bangla reports. Several ministers, parliamentarians, leaders and his former party colleagues [...] (local)
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